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four-poster
noun
four-post·er
ˌfȯr-ˈpō-stər 
: a bed with tall often carved corner posts originally designed to support curtains or a canopy
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The stone-and-thatch rooms and freestanding cottages are built from local materials, designed by two Frank Lloyd Wright alums to blend into the landscape, and have wooden four-poster beds; some cottages sit along a rocky volcanic cliff with terraces jutting over the sea.
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Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 27 Feb. 2025
Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson The Bedroom: The 19th-century four-poster bed is from Acushnet River Antiques in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
Jimmy, who was around 93 years old at the time, personally commissioned a recreation of his and Rosalynn’s four-poster bed from Andrew.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2025
The tented accommodations, designed to resemble cocoons, house spacious suites outfitted with four-poster beds, copper claw-foot tubs, and vintage leather trunks cleverly converted into minibars.
—Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 27 Feb. 2025
Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson The Bedroom: The 19th-century four-poster bed is from Acushnet River Antiques in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
Jimmy, who was around 93 years old at the time, personally commissioned a recreation of his and Rosalynn’s four-poster bed from Andrew.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2025
The tented accommodations, designed to resemble cocoons, house spacious suites outfitted with four-poster beds, copper claw-foot tubs, and vintage leather trunks cleverly converted into minibars.
—Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Four-poster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/four-poster. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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